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Slide show features Homecoming 2009
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Homecoming 2009, held this year Sept. 25-27, featured NESCAC sports as central to the weekend’s fun. Important gatherings also included a Multicultural Center-hosted reception and exhibition for alumni diversity in the arts, a 90th-Anniversary Outing Club reception and a volunteer recognition reception and dinner. See a few of these events and more in this slide show. Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Marni Lyn Sienko.